Gold Sounds

On our list of the best live music venues in New York.

Two longtime Brooklyn bar and booking veterans, Cenk Eryaman and Chip Su, opened Gold Sounds in 2016 and named it for a Pavement song. The front room runs on a vintage jukebox; the back room is reached through its own insulated doors, so a show back there doesn't bleed into the bar up front, with a sound system built for touring and local indie acts. Shows book most nights of the week, some 18-and-up and some all-ages.